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| 1 | 1868 | - 1868: Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
- 1868: George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
- 1868: J P Knight invents traffic lights.
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| 2 | 1869 | - 1869: Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
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| 3 | 1872 | - 1872: J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
- 1872: A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
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| 4 | 1873 | - 1873: Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
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| 5 | 1874 | - 1874: American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
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| 6 | 1876 | - 1876: Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine.
- 1876: Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper.
- 1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
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| 7 | 1877 | - 1877: Rutherford Hayes president of the USA 1877-1881.
- 1877: Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph.
- 1877: Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures.
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| 8 | 1878 | - 1878: Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
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| 9 | 1880 | - 1880: The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
- 1880: Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
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| 10 | 1881 | - 1881: Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano.
- 1881: Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector.
- 1881: David Houston patents the roll film for cameras.
- 1881: Chester A. Arthur president of the USA 1881-1885. Chester A. Arthur, vice president under James Garfield, sworn in as president upon the death of Garfield.
- 1881: James Garfield president of the USA 1881. James Garfield wounded by assassin's bullet on 3 Jul 1881 and dies 19 Sep 1881.
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| 11 | 1884 | - 1884: Charles Parson patents the steam turbine.
- 1884: James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register.
- 1884: Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen.
- 1884: George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
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| 12 | 1885 | - 1885: Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1885-1889.
- 1885: Harim Maxim invents a machine gun.
- 1885: Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle.
- 1885: Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
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| 13 | 1886 | - 1886: John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
- 1886: Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
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| 14 | 1887 | - 1887: F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses.
- 1887: Emile Berliner invents the gramophone.
- 1887: German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar.
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| 15 | 1888 | - 1888: John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire.
- 1888: Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws.
- 1888: Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer.
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| 16 | 1889 | - 1889: Benjamin Harrison president of the USA 1889-1893.
- 1889: Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
- 1889: Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook.
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| 17 | 1891 | - 1891: Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
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| 18 | 1892 | - 1892: Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
- 1892: Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
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| 19 | 1893 | - 1893: Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897.
- 1893: American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
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| 20 | 1895 | - 1895: Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one person.
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| 21 | 1896 | - 1896: American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
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| 22 | 1897 | - 1897: William McKinley president of the USA 1897-1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.
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| 23 | 1898 | - 1898: Spanish-American War: United States vs Spain 1898.
- 1898: Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.
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| 24 | 1899 | - 1899: I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
- 1899: J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.
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| 25 | 1900 | - 1900: The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
- 1900: Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator.
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| 26 | 1901 | - 1901: Theodore Roosevelt president of the USA 1901-1909. Theodore Roosevelt, vice president under William McKinley, sworn in as president upon death of McKinley.
- 1901: Hubert Booth invents a compact and modern vacuum cleaner.
- 1901: Edward VII. Ruler of England 1901-1910. House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: Eldest son of Victoria, married Alexandra, Princess of Denmark.
- 1901: King Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor.
- 1901: The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission.
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| 27 | 1902 | - 1902: Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner.
- 1902: French physicist George Claude invents neon light.
- 1902: The lie detector or polygraph machine is invented by James Mackenzie.
- 1902: The birth of the Teddy Bear.
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| 28 | 1903 | - 1903: Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons.
- 1903: Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens.
- 1903: The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane.
- 1903: Mary Anderson invents windshield wipers.
- 1903: William Coolidge invents ductile tungsten used in lightbulbs.
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| 29 | 1904 | - 1904: Benjamin Holt invents a tractor.
- 1904: Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan.
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| 30 | 1905 | - 1905: Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2.
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| 31 | 1906 | - 1906: William Kellogg invents Cornflakes.
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| 32 | 1907 | - 1907: Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere.
- 1907: The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu.
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| 33 | 1908 | - 1908: The gyrocompass invented by Elmer A. Sperry.
- 1908: Cellophane invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger.
- 1908: Model T automobile first sold.
- 1908: J W Geiger and W Müller invent the geiger counter.
- 1908: Fritz Haber invents the Haber Process for making artificial nitrates.
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| 34 | 1909 | - 1909: Instant coffee invented by G. Washington.
- 1909: William Taft president of the USA 1909-1913.
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1868 - 1909 (40 years)